Re: Media Subsystem Workshop 2011

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

Em 03-08-2011 14:21, Mauro Carvalho Chehab escreveu:
> As already announced, we're continuing the planning for this year's 
> media subsystem workshop.
> 
> To avoid overriding the main ML with workshop-specifics, a new ML
> was created:
> 	workshop-2011@linuxtv.org
> 
> I'll also be updating the event page at:
> 	http://www.linuxtv.org/events.php
> 
> Over the one-year period, we had 242 developers contributing to the
> subsystem. Thank you all for that! Unfortunately, the space there is
> limited, and we can't affort to have all developers there. 
> 
> Due to that some criteria needed to be applied to create a short list
> of people that were invited today to participate. 
> 
> The main criteria were to select the developers that did significant 
> contributions for the media subsystem over the last 1 year period, 
> measured in terms of number of commits and changed lines to the kernel
> drivers/media tree.
> 
> As the used criteria were the number of kernel patches, userspace-only 
> developers weren't included on the invitations. It would be great to 
> have there open source application developers as well, in order to allow 
> us to tune what's needed from applications point of view. 
> 
> So, if you're leading the development of some V4L and/or DVB open-source 
> application and wants to be there, or you think you can give good 
> contributions for helping to improve the subsystem, please feel free 
> to send us an email.
> 
> With regards to the themes, we're received, up to now, the following 
> proposals:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------+----------------------
> THEME                                                    | Proposed-by:
> ---------------------------------------------------------+----------------------
> Buffer management: snapshot mode                         | Guennadi
> Rotation in webcams in tablets while streaming is active | Hans de Goede
> V4L2 Spec – ambiguities fix                              | Hans Verkuil
> V4L2 compliance test results                             | Hans Verkuil
> Media Controller presentation (probably for Wed, 25)     | Laurent Pinchart
> Workshop summary presentation on Wed, 25                 | Mauro Carvalho Chehab

In time: it should be, instead Tue Oct, 25. Sorry for the typo.

> ---------------------------------------------------------+----------------------
> 
> From my side, I also have the following proposals:
> 
> 1) DVB API consistency - what to do with the audio and video DVB API's 
> that conflict with V4L2 and (somewhat) with ALSA?
> 
> 2) Multi FE support - How should we handle a frontend with multiple 
> delivery systems like DRX-K frontend?
> 
> 3) videobuf2 - migration plans for legacy drivers
> 
> 4) NEC IR decoding - how should we handle 32, 24, and 16 bit protocol
> variations?
> 
> Even if you won't be there, please feel free to propose themes for 
> discussion, in order to help us to improve even more the subsystem.
> 
> Thank you!
> Mauro

Rémi, thanks for pointing it!

Thanks!
Mauro